Trials & New Databases

Trials & New Databases

New Databases 2005-06

International Financial Statistics
International Financial Statistics is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current data needed in the analysis of problems of international payments and of inflation and deflation, i.e., data on exchange rates, international liquidity, international banking, money and banking, interest rates, prices, production, international transactions, government accounts, and national accounts.
American State Papers
"The American State Papers constitute rich primary source material on many aspects of early American history from 1789 to 1838. A retrospective republication of approximately 6280 numbered publications, largely Congressional but also containing Executive Department materials...Now available: 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session, 1789-1838, American State Papers Vols. 01-038."
Historical Statistics of the United States Online
"The standard source for the quantitative facts of American history. Completely expanded and revised. Advanced searching of the tables, their documentation, and essays. Advanced searching of the tables, their documentation, and essays."
Digital Sanborn Maps: Maine, 1867-1970
"Large-scale maps of Maine cities and towns. Sanborn maps are valuable historical tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods."
Birds of North America Online
"...comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North American birds."
Naxos Music Library
"...the most comprehensive collection of classical music available online. It includes the complete Naxos and Marco Polo catalogues of over 130,000 tracks, including Classical music, Jazz, World, Folk and Chinese music. Whilst listening, you can read notes on the works being played as well as biographical information on composers or artists in Naxos’s extensive database."
Naxos Music Library Jazz
"...offers close to 20,000 tracks of jazz from over 1,850 albums. Over 500 jazz artists are represented. Naxos Music Library Jazz comprises Naxos Jazz and the 22 labels of Fantasy Jazz. Naxos Jazz, along with Prophone and Proprius, brings you the world of international Jazz, covering Sweden and Scandinavian jazz artist. US-based Fantasy has the world’s deepest jazz catalogue and offers the very best in blues and R&B."
Film Index International
"Film Index International is a filmography that gives fully international coverage of around 118,000 films and 685,000 film personalities from over 170 countries. Its rich content also includes coverage of international film awards and prizes as well as searchable plot summaries and full cast and crew lists."
Early American Imprints. Series 1, Evans (1639-1800)
"Based on Charles Evans’ historic "American Bibliography" and containing all titles from the Evans microform editions, the collection has long served as a foundation set for the teaching and learning of early American history, literature, philosophy, religion, and more. Over 2.3 million page images from almost 37,000 imprints are available online in Evans Digital, including material from almost 1000 'newly discovered' items that were recently added."
Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876)
"Efforts to assemble this renowned collection began with Clarence Brigham’s authoritative "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820." The colonial and early national newspapers collected by American Antiquarian Society founder Isaiah Thomas form the core of this collection, which has been supplemented by newspapers later collected by the Society. Additional issues from numerous esteemed institutions and historical societies round out the digital edition of EAN. (The latest release now makes more than 265,949 issues representing some 1,173,235 page images available online. Upon completion of/ Series I/ by January, more than 1,000 newspapers will be represented. Subsequent series will contain all of the American Antiquarian Society’s 19th-century newspapers, as well as newspapers from other institutions."
American Periodicals Series Online
"...Digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century. Titles range from Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine and America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies’ Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure’s."
The Database of Recorded American Music
Contains over 1,200 CDs (7,500 compositions) of American music recordings by New World Records. "From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation. A further DRAM initiative is the expansion of content to include American music from other sources. Other labels currently represented on the Database include CRI, Albany, innova, Cedille, XI, Pogus, Deep Listening and Mutable. Alliances with other major and independent labels and archival sources are crucial to DRAM’s goal of collecting the widest spectrum of American music possible for educational use and scholarly research."
Access World News
"Provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Excludes paid advertisements." "Provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. Excludes paid advertisements."
Smithsonian Global Sound
"Smithsonian Global Sound, produced in partnership with Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, is a virtual encyclopedia of the world’s musical and aural traditions. ... It includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of the legendary Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. It also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), sponsored by the American Institute for Indian Studies."
GeoScienceWorld
A comprehensive resource for research and communications in the geosciences, consisting of full text peer-reviewed journals indexed, linked, and inter-operable with GeoRef.